For the Shekhinah is called: ‘a positive precept’ from the right-hand side, and ‘a negative precept’ from the left-hand side, and She is called ‘Torah’ – from the aspect of the Middle Pillar, and anyone who steals or unjustly withholds funds in the Torah, whether in a positive or negative precept, is as if he had stolen the Shekhinah, away from the arms of the blessed Holy One.
And similarly, from the aspect of Yesod – the life-force of the worlds – She is called ‘the covenant of circumcision’. One who steals of the covenant, and produces seed from it for an alien domain, is as if he had taken out an object from the private domain, to the public domain, and caused the Shekhinah to go out from Her place, which is the Land of Israel – the private domain – and has exiled Her between the nations of the world – who are the public domain.